Andrew Trnacek

Title
Partner - Operational Advisory

Experience
Andrew leads Grant Thornton’s Consulting Practice. Andrew specialises in the Public Sector with further specialisation in Education. Andrew is a conceptual and well structured thinker providing his clients with innovative thinking and project leadership.

Andrew brings hands-on, in-depth experience in the areas of, Policy Development, Government Program Review, Market & Segmentation Analysis, Financial Modelling, as well as Business Process Improvement and Machinery of Government reviews. Andrew brings to his assignments personal commitment, project leadership skills and innovative thinking.     

Sector Expertise

Departmental experience

• Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (Vic)
• Department of Education and Training (Qld) 
• Department of Education and Training (NT) 
• Department of Education and Training (ACT) 
• Skills Victoria (Formerly part of DIIRD)
• Department of Human Services (Vic)
• Department of Health (Victoria)
• Department of  Communities, Disability and Community Care Services (Qld)
• Department of Justice (Vic)

Education experience

• student disability prevalence forecasts and funding analysis
• student support funding models
• Victorian Deaf Education Institute
• capacity building planning 
• autism teaching provision planning
• disability teaching Institute reviews (Autism , Deaf)
• early childhood services service and system funding
• policy framework for disengaged youth

Human and community services experience

• strategy development and new service design for disability organisation (Vic)
• Youth Custodial Centres, financial analysis
• reviewed financial performance of Community Service Organisations
• new disability services  design
• service demand and forecasting
• Cross Government and Central Agency Experience
• budget reviews and central agency submission
• shared Services design
• service catalogue and cost modelling
• project assurance
• activity based costing and corporate cost allocation

Professional qualifications and memberships

• Doctorate: Chemistry, Monash University Melbourne 
• BSc Honours, Monash University Melbourne
• Member of the Institute of Public Administration Australia 
• Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
  

Contact Details
T  +61 3 8663 6121
M  +61 421 051 884
E andrew.trnacek@au.gt.com